Guild Wars 2

Hi all, this is my first post and wish to share some of my thoughts.

I was a casual WOW player for many years and purchase GW2 once released in 2012. I have never focused on GW2 until I found most of my WOW friends are gone ( two has passed away accidentally, severals have given up WOW in recent). I am living in a different time zone and playing in America sever, that makes me very uneasy see all mates.

So I started my GW2 adventure since last year. Staring with level 1 as a Charr, and soon found it is far more attractive than WOW. I like the scripts of NPCs . Dinky was my sparring character. He looks very “real” to me during each episodes of personal story. I must say his battle skill is always constant and so required me to save him often. Never mind. But he is gone after Act 1 has been completed and never be found in Charr’s area anymore.

Moving on to other Acts, I have been accompanied with different characters in the personal story. The scripts have made them so fascinating., outstanding, and so built up a unique experience unlike WOW. But most of them gone once the story ended.

I really miss these NPCs, especially when I am wondering around the map to complete the quest. The NPCs might not be useful (almost I did all combat but NPC just stood next to it and watching in story mode ), but it makes me feel better to be in a company with them whenever they voice out a joke, humming , an emotion or even silly things . They are very different from the miniatures.

Could the developers consider allowing user to bond with a NPC (if the player prefers) outside the story mode and not in PvP?

npc’s are really well scripted in GW2, and they seem pretty lively. it’s a pitty we don’t get to see them anymore after their participation in the story though, I agree…

Hmmm, I thought all interesting NPC’s were killed off during the story. I must be forgetting someone… or Anet forgot to bump them off.

Interesting thought but I’ll guess no. It would put too much load on the servers if everyone was wandering around with an NPC buddy. They already have to disappear the minis when the map population gets too high. This would add to the problem and you’d probably see the NPC buddies and minis set to disappear with lower map populations. This would mean they’d be gone more often and longer.

There are more to come.

Have to agree with you, the construction of NPC’s characters and their respective story lines in GW2 is quite remarkable and sets a standard.

Personally I didn’t really like WoW. I played for a while, because a relative was there. It had a few interesting, if very short lived, story lines. But these were hardly exploited and the dialogue, such as it was, was pretty lame.

Not sure where you are yet with GW2, but I will urge you to get Season 2.

Destiny’s Edge has disbanded. Another group has emerged with very different, yet equally strong characters.

Have a look at this clip. It’s about 20 mins long and features three very strong characters. It might be a bit of a spoiler for things yet to come for you, or it might not, sicne I don’t know how are you’ve gotten yet.

Yeah, unfortunately, a lot of good characters were either dropped (especially from the early personal story) or were killed off ANet style for little to no effect.

You’d think the personal story characters would at least show up in your home instance. I want to see my charr’s warband show up now and again!

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You’d think the personal story characters would at least show up in your home instance. I want to see my charr’s warband show up now and again!

I have seen them, but it’s a total coin flip as to whether or not they’ll show up. For Charr NPCs, they tend to be idling in the bar somewhere. Noted Clawspur and some of the storyline recruits at some point.

But c’mon ANet, give us our warband back!

I found Dinky is inside the Hero’s Forum, but just standing there, unlike the other NPCs move around. It makes him oddly staring at a point.
I don’t know how other sparring NPCs would be , could they be just like other NPCs get something to do?